Skillcapes will raise the level of the skill temporarily to 100, and will give the bonus to the skill, such as with the Strength cape, you can hit higher. You can raise the level by taking off and putting on the cape, or going into the equipment interface and clicking "Boost". The emote's picture is a player with a Ranging cape and Ranging equipment, even though you might not have a Ranging cape.

Each cape of accomplishment and distinction has a different emote. It does not matter if the cape is trimmed or not; the emote is always the same. The only exception to this is the completionist cape, which has a slightly different emote when trimmed. This emote can be performed on free-to-play worlds, as long as an appropriate cape is worn.

As of 28 October2008, performing the skillcape emote also plays a short sound effect which fits with the actions of the emote. In the case of the Prayer cape emote, one can hear the wings of the Prayer cape flapping, for example. Unlike the emotes, however, the sounds can only be heard by the person performing the emote.

The Dungeoneering cape has 3 different emotes, one with Magic armour, one with Melee armour and one with Range armour.

On 19 March2010, a player-submitted poll asked the community what their favourite skillcape emote was. The Prayer skillcape emote was chosen by a twenty percent majority (9431 votes out of 46932).[1] However, this was before the release of Dungeoneering and before skillcapes' emotes were changed.

These are the animations produced by operating or using the skillcape emote while wearing a Cape of Accomplishment.

On 25 May 2010, Jagex updated the skillcape emotes to look much smoother by "tweening" them and adding particle effects to them, as well as revamping several with a newer animation.